The Things We Did Lyrics

I'm the man who tells the world about the things we did

The things we did

The things we did

All the faces we wore and the ones we keep hid

The man who tells the world about the things we did

I got this job when I was seventeen

The old man dragged me in

He showed me how a life and times

Is just a black and white picture and five short lines

Then I took the reins at twenty one

This paper was the old man's life

He went to get lunch but he never came back

So I printed his picture and I called his wife

I'm the man who tells the world about the things we did

The things we did

The things we did

All the faces we wore and the ones we keep hid

The man who tells the world about the things we did

When the new boss arrived, he was thirty-five

As sharp as the edge of his degree

I should have smelled a rat

When the bankers came around

I should have seen the money walking out of this town

They said this place is like a museum

It's an ode to the ancient and the strange

They laughed at my pencils and my legal pad

One click of the keyboard and the whole world changed

Trudeau was a pirouette

Earhart was a plane

And Martin Luther King became his dream

Maybe we become the love

That our children carry with 'em

Give them the key to your heart

If it's the only thing you give 'em

Now it's getting late

And the reaper won't wait

It's time for me to set my story down

I'll put the ugly with the pretty

And the bad beside the good

Print it like I wrote it 'cause you know that I would

I'm the man who tells the world about the things we did

The things we did

The things we did

All the faces we wore and the ones we keep hid

The man who tells the world about the things we did

All the faces we wore and the ones we keep hid

The man who tells the world about the things we did